Today’s Spooktember, not sure where I was going with it but I like the face. Tomorrow’s going to be a busy day while I prep for the first round of moving things.

Nine days until moving day.

I have a Ko-fi page! If you like my art or writing, please leave a tip! I’ve got just over a week until I’m getting moved out, and every bit counts until I can find a new job.

Another evil is of the day, and would that it were sufficient unto it. We repair the daily deteriorations of the body by eating and drinking, until the day when You will destroy both the belly and the meats, for you will kill our emptiness with a marvellous fullness, and You will clothe this corruptible with eternal incorruption.

But for the present time the necessity is sweet to me, and I fight against that sweetness lest I be taken captive by it. […] This You taught me, that I should learn to take my food as a kind of medicine. But while I am passing from the pain of hunger to the satisfaction of sufficiency, in that very passage the snare of concupiscence lies in wait for me. For the passage is itself a pleasure, yet there is no other way to achieve sufficiency than that which necessity forces us to travel.

–Augustine, Confessions, Book 10

Demand - Need = Desire

Prompt #18

“For an angel you certain are perverted”

The demon mumbled aloud, his smile full of amusement. Trailing his eyes up and down the angels body. Heat rising to the angels face as he shook his head, his eyes darting down to the floor and then back towards the demon. His expression in false annoyance, crossing his arms.

“What the hell are you on about,”

The angel scoffed, biting his lip for a moment to hold his words he wanted to slip out but just couldn’t find it in him to say if the demon was right. His wings puffing up for a moment before relaxing. The demon laughed and took a few steps towards the shorter angel.

“I see how you look at me, [angel],I see that needy look you try to hide - that blush on your face even when you just so feel the slightest hint of my presence. Don’t think I’m not observant, [angel],”

The demon answered, his smile darkening as he watched the angel tense up under his words. The angels shoulders beginning to subtly hunch forward. His breath hitched for only a second before he cleared his throat, forcing his shoulders back to stand up straight. He tried to seem as if he had composure, something to make himself at least believe he had control.

“I don’t know what you’re on about but it’s not me, [demon], don’t compare me to whatever angel you so happen to have toyed with before”

“You think I want anyone else but you ? Funny, no one else is as..interesting, as you are [angel], and even if I did have other angels at my disposal, I’d give them all up to have you”

“That’s never gonna fucking happen and you know it damn well,”

Angel raised his voice slightly, not phasing the demon as he took another few steps closer, making the angel take steps back.

“Doesn’t seem like it, [angel], your tactic to feel like you aren’t falling for me is failing - but the thing is, I’ll take you in, you can be mine and I’ll be yours”

“Never, I’m not — I-I’m not—“

“The hesitation isn’t helping, my dear”

Introducing your new kink… Father Phoenix

I made these awhile back,and I knew you all would appreciate them… Come now; confess your sins.

What the Marcos’ return to power means for the Philippines - BBC News

What the Marcos’ return to power means for the Philippines

I really never thought I’d see a Marcos in power again. wtf

In 1906, the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States, the forerunner to the NCAA, was founded to set rules for college sports.  Well, “rule,” really.  And that rule is “literally no kind of disgusting and/or criminal behavior is unacceptable so long as you do not pay your players.”

Fuck the NCAA.

From: Kim-Babe, please don’t make me do this…. I’m sorry okay! I won’t do it again! (message sent 4:50pm)

From: Dennis - Nuh-uh! You want to come to my job and embarrass me to entertain your douchey new friends? You can work my shift tonight! (message sent 4:50pm)

From: Dennis -And if you have any ideas about getting your body back after work, you’ll send me every damn selfie I tell you to. Make it good, your mates want to see some cleavage! (message sent 4:51pm)

From: Kim- Okay…. but just this one, right? I don’t want these guys to think you’d cheat on me? (message sent 4:52pm)

From: Dennis- That’s not what you were thinking about last night! Flashing my top up for your idiot mate Don. You’re lucky this is all I do to you. Now send the selfie or you can work my whole week for me. (message sent 4:54pm)

To: Don, Jack, Henry, Josh, Dennis. From: Kim - Great to see you boys last night! Thanks for ALL the tips! XX Kim (message sent 4:56pm)

From: Dennis - Good. How does that feel? To be just a set of tits attached to “just a waitress?” (message sent 4:56pm)

From: Kim - Okay, you’ve made your point… It’s embarrassing okay…. I gotta start your shift now. (message sent 4:58pm)

From: Dennis - Don’t forget, you’ve gotta send another every hour! (message sent 4:59pm)

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To: Don, Jack, Henry, Josh, Dennis. From: Kim - Hooters! Come down and say hi boys! Maybe you’ll see more of all this! (message sent 6:08pm)

From: Dennis - Ha! I knew that would sound funny! Also btw you’re 10 minutes late! (message sent 6:11pm)

From: Kim - I know I’m sorry, there were these customers. They were being assholes and one tried to put a spoon up my butt!  (message sent 6:11pm)

From: Dennis - Awwww what’s the matter? Can’t handle being “just a waitress” babe? Welcome to hospo! How are you doing on tips?  (message sent 6:12pm)

From: Kim - I’ve made none? Am I supposed to be going for tips?  (message sent 6:12pm)

From: Dennis - Not gonna eat very well this week if you don’t! Tell ya what, make $100 in tips tonight, and I won’t mess with your brain anymore! (message sent 6:13pm)

From: Kim - What did you do…. I feel funny…. Slow. Bubbly. Did you do this to me? (message sent 6:17pm)

From: Dennis - Haha. Good luck out there! Get your flirt on and make dat monaaayyyy!  (message sent 6:18pm)

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To: Don, Jack, Henry, Josh, Dennis. From: Kim - Heeeey boys….. You’re all missing out! There’s so many yummy guys here, I might have to pick another while I wait hehehe xxxxKIMMY  (message sent 7:30pm)

From: Dennis - Late again! And I didn’t tell you to say that! Where’d you get those terrible ears from?  (message sent 7:32pm)

From: Kim - hehe a cuuuuute customer gave them to me! they were his tip arent they hawt?!  (message sent 7:33pm)

From: Dennis - Maybe I overdid it…. No more late snaps! You’re supposed to be be learning a lesson!  (message sent 7:33pm)

From: Kim - soz babe donny is coming to see me im gonna drink with him after my shift! i dunno if ill have time for more pix tho kay don’t wait up he said he wants to give me somethin omg fun rytttt!!!!!  (message sent 7:34pm)

From: Dennis - No! No! Do not hang out with that douche! You come home straight after work!  (message sent 7:35pm)

From: Kim - bossy much? I’m not your property luv and anyway donnys gonna pay! if ur not careful i myt go be his gf insteada urs lol :p hes a total bad boy and im kinda into that (message sent 7:36pm)

From: Kim - have good night cya whenever i make it home lolol mwah! (message sent 7:37pm)

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My cap swap for @evie-hyde​ I hope you love it as much as I loved yours! xox

closet-keys:

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you can tell a lot about the values of the culture you’re in when it comes to making hard decisions, and what decisions are considered “extreme, but necessary” versus what decisions are considered “unthinkable.”

right now, the culture I’m inside of says that over 400,000 people within our borders dying from covid-19 is “extreme, but necessary” but that taxing billionaires and using the money to give everyone guaranteed shelter, food, clean water, and supplies, and to pay everyone to stay home until there are no cases left is considered “unthinkable.”

Approaching one million deaths now.

Opinion | Why the Big Meat menace may be even worse than we thought

saywhat-politics:

GOP Senate candidate: Congress isn’t there to stop school shootings — they’re supposed to promote ‘biblical values’

During a recent livestream, Oklahoma GOP Senate candidate Jarrin Jackson declared that Congress is “not there to prevent school shootings.”

“You’re there to defend the Constitution,” he declared.

“And the Constitution includes the Second Amendment, which if you look at any kind of legitimate approach about what the Constitution means — because the Founders believed the bible and were mostly bible-believing Christians, they enshrined a document, the Constitution, that limits government because man is sinful,” Jackson continued.

Jackson went on to say that when you have a society that reflects biblical values, “you shouldn’t give government a lot of power” so that it can decide “who can have and who can’t have a firearm.”

“Until you get people to point to the Gospel, you’re not dealing with ‘gun control,’ you’re not dealing with murder with an eternal solution. You’re dealing with an idolatrous notion that will inevitably lead to tyranny because we have substituted our fear of God for our worship and our desire for government.”

Reach complete Enlightenment, you ignorant jerk.

The Corruptness Of The Social ‘Sciences’: It Prevents Democracy From Functioning

The Corruptness Of The Social ‘Sciences’: It Prevents Democracy From Functioning

A striking example of the corruptness of the social ‘sciences’ is the results from web-searching the phrase “UNDERSTANDING THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE CONFLICT” (just click onto it here — or else copy-and-paste that quotation into a search-box — to see the results from that web-search).
Virtually all of the sites that come up present political ‘scientists’ (and a few sociologists) offering their theories,…

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A leaked investigators’ report to the US Congress Ethics committee was leaked over the weekend and has gone viral. Here are just a couple of the juicy bits found in the report.

Expect San Nicolas to make a mad push to find a running mate in the next few weeks…before he is forced to resign his congressional seat to avoid prosecution.

YESTERDAY’S COVID-19 PRESS CONFERENCE was textbook dog-n-pony. The fact, that so many island residents, went away from Lou’s latest debacle in deception, “feeling better” is a testament to the successful manure application sown by Carlo Branch, Lou’s  new, “chief communications and policy director”.

Despite presenting a Covid-19 Relief Budget that made no attempt to hide their shady dealings and Christmas wish list shopping zeal that cheats Guam out of so much resources, island media did not dig down while they had the chance.

The takeaway from Lou’s Covid-19 Relief Budget press conference were staggering…. with unequivocal  examples of corruption, malfeasane and misfeasance slipped right under the nose of journalists  still churning a single plot.

More mindful of not conveying any bitchiness or the hallmark arrogance that has come to define this administration, almost as much as their singular corruption, the difference in approach seemed to work for some, as reflected by rather simplistic observations on social media.

Although the opaque phuckery of the Lou & Josh administration was no more transparent than when they were being bitchy and shady, the new tone managed to sooth and placate some vocal critics, who turned out to be far less observant than their loud bark otherwise suggested heretofore.

Carlo’s placebo offensive worked. Media ate up the mea culpa like a free buffet and couldn’t see past the apologies long enough to dig into the numbers in their faces…even for a 2 hour presser.

What Lou reaffirms with her pandemic budget is that it is all about her and her friends first. The people are an afterthought, as is evidenced in their no-bid, no-RFP spending spree.

No-bid contracts are generally bad for taxpayers and should be reserved for infrequent time-sensitive emergencies that require fast action of a highly specialized nature….but even then, the public deserves and expects real value for the dollars spent.

Lou boasted about setting aside $20 million to be used as grants for small business reimbursements for losses due to government forced closures. But on top, of the $20,000,000, unregarded by reporters during the press conference, was a $5,000 to payment to Michelle Crisostomo - the girlfriend of  Lou’s former chief of staff, Tony Babauta.

Lou’s already approved budget expenditures includes a $900 computer bag, price tags for top of the line computers that far exceed the needs they are intended for….and everything, everywhere you look, at a cost two to four times higher than they should be

Very little questioning was spent on a $900 computer bag. Zero questions were asked why Lester Carlson’s office suddenly needed tens of thousands of dollars in top of the line computers.

Or why wireless mouses for the computers were cited at a price point 200% - 300% higher than they should be.

I don’t recall anyone asking why 10 emergency response vehicles were needed at a price tag of $300,000.

These Dell rugged notebooks are configured with specs that far exceed what Emergency Responders would need in their vehicles….and can be purchased, full price, at less than $2,900 per unit. Volume discounts not applied, and buying 10 of these come in at under $30,000 or about 45% of what Lou has approved in her budget.

Or why the rugged notebooks were quoted at more than 3 times the going rate, mounts for installing the computers wre priced at more than three times the cost of what is actually needed, or whay radios for the vehicles cost 3 times more than they should?

The most expensive configuration would be ideally used on a large construction sites to run 3D imaging programs and high-processor functions. Not something Emergency Responders tend to need, as their primary usage involves low resource demand data input and coallation. At a figure below $6,000 each, with no volume discount or sales pricing, ten of these still come in at less that 90% of what Lou’s money-funneling pandemic budget allocates. BBMR director, Lester Carlson, scrambled to cover their asses yesterday when a reporter noticed the approved expenditure - from his own office - for a computer bag that costs as much as a computer. Carlson tried to deny the nearly $900 computer bag was greenlighted…he lied.  Lou’s cover letter was clear: she approved of the budget presented.

When governments are awarding expensive contracts, competitive bidding is the safeguard that protects taxpayers from shoddy inside deals. 

It’s a “best practice” mandated by Guam law, with limited exceptions, to facilitate good service at a reasonable price because, without it, public officials can steer lavish deals to political insiders more concerned with padding their own pockets than delivering quality and value.

Take, for instance, the recent rigged deal to funnel all sales of personal protection equipment to friends of Adelup, or the $300,000 for test kits sold to GovGuam by Lou & Josh friends at a 300% mark up.

Or the still unraveling hotel quarantine scandal.

A “Dog and pony show” is a highly promoted, often over-staged performance, presentation, or event designed to sway, spin, distract, and/or convince public opinion for political ends.

Certain senators tried to sneak by a bill to eliminate any need for competitive bidding requirements or procurement regulations, even as the administration has been cutting secret deals with and for friends behind closed doors.

Thankfully, due in large part to public resistance organized by 93.3FM The Point’s talk radio hosts, Ray Gibson and Bob Klitzkie, that effort was defeated. And, despite the governor vetoing an effort by senator Therese Terlaje to ensure accountability, she forged ahead and led an override vote of Lou’s effort to do what she will with millions of dollars intended to help the most needy and stricken in our community.

The fact is, the administration should care about whether their own rules are violated and broken, regardless of media inquiries and outside investigation. That’s called accountability. With no accountability, there can be no trust - and trust is the linchpin u[on which is hinged any successful public compliance during critical situations like a pandemic crisis.

Adelup has created numerous funnels for pandemic profiteering by her friends and cronies….sales of medical supplies are forced into channels that profit INsiders and Bank of Guam customers, while Lou tells the public to not believe anything they see with their own eyes or hear with their own ears.

Lou’s friends who are public officials have to start making sure this administration begins to comply with competitive bidding requirements designed to protect taxpayers, not their friends and cronies.

They need to demand this budget is undone and re-done, as a collaborative effort with the Legislature – and with wide open public engagement, since this money is intended for us! EIther thatn, or risk federal investigation, possible convictions, shame on their families and the derision of the public.

Let’s “bid adios” to no-bids and secret contracts. Let’s start by bidding adios to that dog-n-pony relief budget show!

Why does BBMR and GEDA suddenly need computers?What’s wrong with the ones they have already?

Early Friday morning, guamblog realized the governor’s chief of staff, Tony Babauta had been served up for lunch by a cabal of political cannibals at Adelup. Trying to respond to the evasive - and deceptive - FOIA response, sent to guamblog by Janela Carrera, Tony Babauta’s government email kept bouncing back. His government email account had been deactivated.

Babauta had been targeted for elimination by an band of Lou & Josh’s entitled hacks at Adelup, who were still smarting from a spanking the former chief of staff laid on them after the Casino Matai incident.

The matai mafia didn’t like Babauta’s stern admonishment for making their role in bringing about withering criticism for his boss, Lou Leon Guerrero, who was made to look like a weak and incompetent bafoon, unable to enforce her rules and pandemic orders with her own staff.

Others, who were actually endorsed and brought into the Administration by Babauta, were complicit in the coup through their silence, and despite knowing about the take down, never said a word of warning to him.

There is clear evidence of a selective hit job - and the compliance of island media in the Binestsu BBQ plot.

A strategically planted leak from Adelup cannibals to KUAM, first brought to public attention information about Babauta staying at the Pacific Star…the Tumon hotel, and Bank of Guam client, that is being used as a quarantine facility for GovGuam.

However, whether by choice or manipulation, KUAM framed the one night stay by the former chief of staff in such a way as to make it seem Babauta had been “staying” at the hotel in a luxury suite.

The media’s questionably narrow reporting has been forced to expand, however, with an explosive post on Facebook by community advocate Ken Leon Guerrero that exposed what the media had left our of their coverage.

According to information acquired by Ken Leon Guerrero, Pacific Star management were instructed by Rebecca Respicio, to add the presidential suite on the 19th floor of the hotel, to GovGuam’s list of secret rooms reserved for th exclusive use of INside cronies.

While the governor’s office confessed to Babauta’s one night stay on April 24, they did not mention that Rebecca, and her girlfriend Alice Taijeron, as well as airport exec John Quinata have all spent far more nights enjoying the “suite life” than Babauta did.

Quinata, also known as “JQ”, is the father of Derrick Quinata, who is involved in the notorious coronavirus test kit scam with GovGuam; and is the brotherinlaw of Annmarie Muña, another beneficiary of the test kit hookup scandal, as well as speaker Tina Muña Barnes. JQ is also one of the people who traveled to the Philippines on a golf trip in the middle of a pandemic outbreak there, but was allowed to return to Guam, and bypass quarantining. Those golfers are at the center of their very own Covid-19 infection cluster.

With the media scrambling to cover up their lack of balanced coverage, and the role in the Binetsu BBQ, Carlo Branch, policy director for the governor, has already initiated the next campaign of untruths from Adelup, to begin the cover up the abuse and exploitation of millions of dollars of pandemic aid.

Branch spins out excuses for the excessive, suite life being led by Rebecca and her lover, telling media that Rebecca, who upgraded accomadations for her and her girlfriend to a luxury suite on the 19th floor, needed to stay at the hotel because “….regular hotel staff are not permitted to have contact with quarantined individuals.”

The presidential suite at the Pacific Star can accomodate several adults, in more than 1,000 square feet of space, with panoramic views of Tumon Bay. It counts with two bathroom, a fully-stocked bar and special hotel kitchen privileges.

One of the beneficiaries of the Babauta ouster, Branch further claimed the lesbian lovers were the only “overnight staff for 140 individuals” and had to live in the hotel to handle the demands of a dwindling number of quarantine guests.

Guamblog will pick apart this absurdity in moment…but keep in mind that, between Rebecca and Alice, it’s possible that these two could pull down upwards of as much as a half million dollar in salary for their suite roles in the COVID-19 recovery efforts because of GovGuam’s differential pay policy; and depending on how long Lou chooses to extend her “public health emergency” plot.

The spin job being pushed by Branch for Adelup is not only ill-conceived, but claims that Rebecca and Alice are indispensable to the quarantine program are betrayed by numerous best practices promoted by, national and international, hotel and lodging associations.

Ample legal guidelines for the industry, with very specific regard for the use of private hotel properties for quarantine facilities by goverments, make clear the poor value GovGuam and hotel workers receive from the program established by Adelup.

The stupid political cannibals at Adelup, in their plot to burn Tony Babauta’s ass, may have succeeded in that regard, but their success comes at the expense of the governor, with further evidence emerging of potential racketeering and corruption.

Island hotels were among the first businesses left reeling by the global spread of the Wuhan virus. Bearing th brunt of that impact were thousands of hotel workers, and their families.

Rather that see the value Tumon hotels offered to the government to help ease the economic blow to hotel workers, and for the governmet to affordaby address the immediate needs of pandemic response, Lou only saw a chance to funnel millions of dollars to her campaign donors and clients of her family-owned bank.

Guam hotels were perfectly situated to offer significant value to GovGuam during the pandemic, that could have included more than housing quarantined individuals with actual or suspected COVID-19 infections.

The hotels could have been useds to house doctors, nurses, and other health care workers, including potentially allowing them to remain close to medical facilities, while avoiding transmission risks to their families and friends.

Ensuring that Guam hotels were integrated into a comprehensive, strategic pandemic management plan is the difference between millions of dollars that are maximized to support the island’s struggling hotel industry - and hundreds of workers, and funneling those millions into the bank accounts of a mere handful of people, with close ties to the Lou & Josh administration.

To begin with, rather than secretly handpick hotels for quarantine use, hotel properties could have been solicitied to put together quarantine packages that included discounted rates for stays 14 days or longer, along with included add-ons such as contactless meal delivery and weekly laundry, as well as an enhanced cleaning fee at the conclusion of each stay.

Hotel properties could have been contracted to provide food and beverage facilities for overflow meal service for patients, health care workers, and others; or used as laundry facilities for the overflow of hospital linens.

All of these options would have provided work for thousands of workers who are now sitting at home worrying about how they will feed their families in the next few weeks or pay bills.

Instead, Lou & Josh’s INsider pals, already wealthy or earning 2 or 3 times more than most households on Guam, continue to be the only ones being taken care of during this crippling pandemic crisis.

Rebecca and Alice, between the two of them, earn for their household, about $4,000 a week - without actually having to do any work, thanks to Lou closing down government offices. And that $200,000 household income is before Rebecca and Alice have their generous paychecks doubled by Lou’s differential pay policy - for spending their nights in luxury suites at Pacific Star, to attend to fewer and fewer quarantine guests each  week.

No matter how they try spin it, or how many Adelup loyalist fall on the sword, or, in the case of Tony Babauta, on the spit, for Lou and Josh, regardless how wordy the spin Carlo Branch puts on it, or how banal any dispatch from Janela, the millions going to Lou’s friends and bank customers could have been better used as a lifeline for hundreds of workers.

No wonder then, Lou’s communication director, Janela Carrera, and Civil Defense administrator Charles Esteves are trying to hide from guamblog the emails and communications involving quarantine expenses requested in two FOIAs.

Lou, and her cannibals, have been able to count on the media to work with their plots, through complicity or complacency, to get away with activities that may very well rise to the level of federal racketeering charges…and implicate the governor, the lt. governor, their chief advisors and legal counsel.

Guam has a long road to economic recovery ahead of us…how much more difficult that will be if, later, federal authorities demand that GovGuam pay back millions of dollars of misspent pandemic funds.

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Thought I would finally get around to posting my TMA Oc: Ragdoll (They/he/it).

They’re a life sized doll acting as an Avatar of the Corruption by becoming a mobile home of a myriad of flesh eating moths.